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"Behind these mountains": Photograph by the Albanian photographer, Ernesto Çela, Albania, 1999.

« This was one of the reasons I decided to move on. To see whether somewhere else things are better. Out of, you know, out of curiosity. To see what is happening on the other side of those mountains, what is going on, what kind of people live there. So curiosity and not so much a feeling of being closed in -well …to some extent, that too- made me come to Greece. »

Drita (29, Albania )

« That’s why all the Bulgarian women are here! Why? What are we here for? To work! We work here the same as we worked there. We came to work! […] But we’ve been used to that. We are fifty-five-year-old women. And as you can see we are here! Sixty-year-old women are here to work! »

Mira (50, Bulgaria )

Leaving home

Losing one’s profession Lazy Greeks The second generation Working women Learning a trade Care work Papers Teamwork Material world Time off Work, work, work Leaving home The boss Spending Communist worker